March 1961: 18-30

Description: This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning legislative activities and efforts to enact the Kennedy Administration's legislative program. Items include "Legislative Notes" and other data prepared by Legislative Research; reports on legislative progress from Special Assistant to the President for Congressional Relations and Personnel Lawrence "Larry" O'Brien; and a letter from Illinois Congressman Charles Melvin Price concerning the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program. Also included are materials regarding civil rights legislation and foreign aid, including a proposed amendment to the Foreign Aid Act. This folder was originally titled "March 1961:18-30, Aircraft nuclear propulsion, sugar, feed grains, minimum wage, civil rights, area redevelopment, social security."

Series Description: The Legislative Files series was constructed by the staff of the Kennedy Library from a four-box nucleus of a "Legislation" series, a partial box of "Messages to Congress," and documents dealing with legislation from the subjects part of an old "Special Topics" series and from the disbanded "Daily Reports." What has emerged is a very incomplete, fragmentary file of reports and memoranda which at least partially documents the highlights of the efforts of the White House staff to get the administration's legislative program enacted. The series includes notes for meetings with Congressmen, summary reports on the progress of legislation, messages to Congress, memoranda about specific pieces of legislation and the interests and concerns of individual Congressmen, and lists of Congressmen attending bill signings and social events at the White House. Since much of this material covers more than one piece of legislation, it has been arranged chronologically rather than topically. This arrangement was also selected to afford researchers an overview of concurrent White House interests in many legislative activities. To assist researchers in locating information on a particular legislator or on a particular piece of legislation, the folder title list is supplemented by the names of Congressmen mentioned and topics covered in the documents (less the summary reports) in each folder. This series, being so fragmentary, requires researchers to consult other series, collections and subcollections for a fuller account. Researchers will be especially interested in the White House Staff Files of Lawrence O'Brien, Myer Feldman, and Lee White.

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